Chapter 22 – The Final Bout of Hisaigo
The walls and floor within a ten metre radius of Haruka was instantly shattered to pieces by her immense spiritual pressure and a dust cloud now hung over where Haruka is. Hisaigo flash stepped backwards as far from her as he could and readied himself.
'Such power. Have I finally found an adversary worth fighting? I knew you'd be strong, but to have achieved bankai with Hidoragon, that's quite the accomplishment I must say. And also to be able to hide this is another great achievement. I guess I have to crush all that power of yours to get what I want then,' said Hisaigo sounding so confident.
The dust died down a big and you could just make out Haruka's head as she said, 'Overconfidence will kill you Hisaigo. I'm not letting you walk away from this place alive, not after what you did to my friends.'
The cloud completely scattered away by her spiritual pressure as Haruka 'showcased/flashed' her sword and flicked it violently to her right. It was exactly as it was in shikai form, nothing has changed.
Hisaigo let out a roar of laughter. 'Is that really you're bankai? Ha ha ha, you're sword didn't change at all, don't even try to fool me with some cheap tricks like that. I, the great Hisaigo will not stand being tricked. Are you trying to piss me off? I think you are, so get ready, cos this is going to be the fight of your life. ARGH,' screamed Hisaigo as he too let out a mass of spiritual pressure.
'I'll repeat, NEVER underestimate your opponents,' said Haruka and she vanished and a split-second later a huge gash appeared vertically down Hisaigo's chest down to his left leg. He screamed and dropped down onto one knee as the blood splattered to the concrete floor.
'What the hell,' he shouted holding his leg in agony. Haruka reappeared again back where she originally was. 'So, is that your bankai's ability? It keeps its original shape and length but gives you a big increase in power and speed?'
'You half-way there, it also gives me a new attack. Watch closely now.' She smirked and flash stepped up into the air, 'shira-enkou-yari,' she shouted as a volley of flaming white spears rained down at him from a circle of light that Haruka casted in front of the tip of her sword.
'Shit,' said Hisaigo to himself and the volley of spears buried him underneath. The grounds was blasted into pieces and the entire building was going to collapse, Haruka hurriedly grabbed everyone who and ran out of the building so no ones gets crushed. She laid everyone down separately apart from each other and walked to the collapsing building waiting to see if Hisaigo survived that attack and the building collapsing on him.
The building was still falling, so she waited standing there sword at the ready incase Hisaigo tried something sneaky if he was still alive.
The building collapsed completely with a loud crash, and the dust was blown up into the air and it was almost impossible to see. Haruka waited for the dust to die down and advanced closer.
A blood soaked arm of Hisaigo was hanging out from underneath a pile of rocks. As Haruka approached it, it suddenly started twitching. Then the hand closed up into a fist and smashed down onto the pile of rocks reducing them to ruble and surprisingly Hisaigo burst out, drenched in his own blood, hyperventilating.
'I'm not through with you yet,' he panted barely able to stand up. He stumbled a bit, used his sword for support and balanced himself up.
'Stop this, you can't possibly continue in your condition,' she shouted holding her hand in front of her.
'Stop? I will do no such thing, not until soul society is mine. NOW, GO TO HELL AND DIE.' Hisaigo held his sword high above him and charged with the face of a maniac.
'Doesn't look like I have a choice, fine then.' Haruka also charged and the two clashed blades in the middle. She flash stepped as Hisaigo was about to make another attack and appeared behind him. 'You're done,' she shouted as she delivered the final blow and striked straight through Hisaigo's heart. Litres of blood cascaded from his chest when Haruka pulled her bloodied sword out. Hisaigo slumped to his knees, died and laid sprawled on the floor.
A minute or two passed of silence as Haruka waited to see if he was going to come back alive again, but when Hisaigo didn't move for all that time, she slowly and gingerly walked away but was still alert.
Ratiasu suddenly started moving, slowly then she was sitting up again. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around.
'Oh no, Ket,' she cried and without another word she went over and started healing Ketu's wounds without even having the slightest glance round.
Haruka came over and crouched by her, 'Is he going to be ok?'
Ratiasu was surprised at first to see her, but then her expression changed to relief, 'Don't worry, he'll be just fine.'
'Good, what about the rest of them?' asked Haruka as she stood up and looked at al the injured.
'Oh? Woops, I didn't notice them, guess I was too busy looking for Ket that I forgot to look elsewhere,' said Ratiasu with a happy yet sorry sort of tone. 'Well since there are this mane people, I guess I'll use my shikai's second ability then.'
'Your sword has a second ability? How come I never knew that?' questioned Haruka sounding surprised.
'Because I've never had to use it. Just watch. Now. Flash, Doragonsumiyaka ,' said Ratiasu and then she closed her eyes and started chanting holding her sword in front of her vertically upwards. 'Now, let all light shine above us, let all evil be dispelled. Wounds close and people heal, let life be brought back, let your warm glow shine upon us, heal, Doragonsumiyaka.' She thrusted her sword up into the sky and watched as it disappeared into a void. As this happened a massive glow of light shone from the sky with all the colours of the rainbow and engulfed all the injured. Blood disappeared and their wounds began to close. The light glowed even brighter until it was impossible to look into it. Haruka shield her eyes from it and a few seconds later the light disappeared and the area returned to its original brightness. Everyone had been healed and they were all starting to wake up.
'So, I lost again did I?' asked Raven suddenly as he sat up. He showed no signs of care however.
A scream came from his left and he immediately saw Crystal and Naomi run towards him. 'Oh Rae you're alright,' cried Crystal as she jumped on top of him.
'Arg. Yes, I'm fine. Don't worry. Looks like we're all fine,' he said looking around. 'Erm… Crystal, I'm sorry.' Raven hung his head as he said it.
'Hey don't be such a wet blanket, we made it out ok so that's good enough for me,' laughed Crystal happily.
'Crystal's right, you need to stop looking down on yourself Rae,' said Naomi who joined in the conversation.
A moments silence as Raven looked up into the clear blue sky. 'I guess,' murmured Raven. They remained silent for a long time after that and later they all got up and walked to Haruka.
'Hey Terri, thanks,' said Ketu as he also walked up to Ratiasu and Haruka after waking up. 'That technique of yours, I haven't seen it since when we were practising it. You sure mastered it very well, you just need to master not using so much of your spiritual energy next time. But still you did a good job, so thank a lot.
'No pro..b..l..e..m… Ke..t..' she panted. She tried to walk towards him but collapsed halfway and into Ketu's arms.
'Are you ok?' Ketu asked with a tone of worry in his voice
'What are you talking about, o..f course.. I'm… o…k…' she then fell asleep.
'Sleep, my love, sleep and regain your strength. No need to worry Terri, I'm with you now, you'll be fine.' He laid Ratiasu down onto the floor and quietly stepped away.
A minute later everyone gathered next to Haruka and asked the same question, 'What happened?' So each of them started telling each other their part of the story until soon all parts were together and everyone there knew the complete sequence of events.
'You say Hisaigo absorbed some information out of Terri's mind?' asked Ketu in a thinking pose but sounded worried all the same. Raven nodded to confirm his answer. 'I wonder what could that be?'
Crystal gasped as she just suddenly remembered, 'The last piece of Usaitar's sword. Of course, it has to be that.'
'The last what of the what sword?' asked Ketu sounding astonished and confused at the same time.
'Oh that right, many of you weren't there when my cousin read it out.'
'Read what out? I'm intrigued.' asked Haruka sounding interested.
Crystal then summarized the entire history that she had researched with her cousin to them. Giving them all the important information, i.e. the thousand piece sword and that Ratiasu was Usaitar's sister etc etc. Things like that basically.
'But that doesn't make any sense, why would Hisaigo want the last piece? Sure it's the most powerful but surely you need the entire sword and I did see that Usaitar got vaporized by Hisaigo including his sword.'
'Yes, this is rather strange.' Raven added his comment in.
'Well, that doesn't matter now. We know that Hisaigo's dead and so is Usaitar and that's all there is to it. So everything should be back to normal by now,' confirmed Ketu. Everyone else nodded in agreement.
'I think we should go and see if everyone else is alright now,' suggested Haruka.
'Yes, let's go take a look,' agreed Naomi.
They all turned away from the wreckage and started to walk away but didn't get very far as a roar of laughter erupted from behind them. 'I'm dead am I? A ha ha, so naïve of you to think that, impudent fools.'
Unfortunately it's another short chp, but oh well couldn't think of more to write, but anyway hope u liked it